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Friday, November 18, 2011

"like licking dreams from the blade of a knife" ~Jackie Leven

On Monday we go see Gillian Welchat Manchester Apollo.
I have provisionally penciled~in Thursday 1st December Wednesday 14th December for this year's annual visit to The Manchester German Markets .I will be ringing around the usual suspects this weekend.Here are my photos from last years's bash.
on the 7th December,Me & Cathy plan to go to Tate Liverpool to see the Alice In Wonderland Exhibition.

"In 2001 , history teacher Matthew Rozell established an oral history project documenting stories of World War II. His pupils unearthed the story of the American 30th Infrantry Division’s discovery in April 1945 of an abandoned train near the town of Magdeburg, Germany. Tank commander Carrol Walsh told how the train’s freight wagons had been jammed packed with Jews, many emaciated , ragged and originally destined for death. Walsh, now a Californian-based retired Supreme Court judge, said there had been scores of children in and around the train........."[from:]
It's a powerful image.My eyes were drawn to the Mother & Child in the forground...but look also at the lady further off in the background in on the left!The Smile Of Life!

"................the metaphorical power of the "atheist's fig" found in a Watford graveyard. Germinating from the last meal of a deceased, it burst through the corpse's gut and out through the coffin lid, eventually reaching the light in vigorous affirmation of life after death. From plants we came, and clearly to them we shall return" [from:Wild Flowers Are Nature's Anarchists]
Has anybody heard before about the Atheist's Fig? I read this today...'never heard of it before.A Google search doesnt help.

August 2010:Los Lobos:Will The Wolf Survive?

"First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. He then adds layer after layer of blood until the blade is completely concealed by the frozen blood................"[read more about how to kill a wolf]

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tony

24 comments:

As for the picture the people appear to be in pretty good shape as well as their clothing. I saved the picture and zoomed in. The women in front to me is almost on the verge of a smile. The women behind the smiler is not close to smiling and it looks possibly like the women behind her could maybe have a bit of a smile.

If this is photo of the actual train and event these people are not quite sure yet that they've been snatched from the jaws of death.

This is Very moving. Deeply sad, yet joyful in the discovery that they live! Can you imagine? They would have been locked in there, of course, so to be freed after the train was abandoned en route to a death camp.... It's mind-boggling. I'm just sitting here shaking my head at how sad and yet excruciatingly beautiful life can be.what an amazing photo to share. thank you so much.

The Atheist's Fig....interesting. Love the title of the book this info came from.

I'd never heard of the atheist's fig but Myth Busters did a mock up and determined that torture by bamboo would work. If tied to the ground in a bamboo grove, the stalks would ultimately grow through you - Yikes!

Not so sure about what it is, but figs, and especially the tree are in the Bible, and well they say Adam and Eve used the fig leaves for cover....that photo has so many things going on...you can really relate to their pain and etc especially the one woman but it's the darling little girl's face, so scared appearing and looking like oh my what's gonna happen next.....not a Shirley Temple life for that little cutie...

That's one powerful picture, Tony. Re the atheist's fig, the closest I could get was the following quote about mythological trees, "In some versions of the Persian* creation story a huge tree grew from the rotting corpse of the first human. The trunk separated into a man and a woman, Mashya and Mashyane, and the fruit of the tree became the various races of humankind. Norse* mythology says that the first man and woman were an ash and an elm tree given life by the gods. The same theme appears in myths of the Algonquian-speaking people of North America, which tell that the creator and culture hero Gluskap fashioned man from an ash tree."

It is indeed a fine photograph. So difficult to believe that such horrendous events post-date the fine colourful car image that kicked off Sepia Saturday this week. Atheist fig or not, it is a strange world we live in (and even that little bit stranger up your end of the valley)

That photo has made me cry. Very powerful and filled with human grace and pain. Somehow, its haunting beauty is made even more poignant by the contast with the photo of Joan Crawford and her adopted son. Two mothers with their children ... so vastly different.

It's all true. I am the teacher, who discovered the photo that you have posted. Taken Friday, April 13th, 1945 by Major Clarence Benjamin, 743rd Tank Battalion.Matthew Rozelllink: http://teachinghistorymatters.wordpress.com/about/